SoroushVahidi/scidocs huggingface dataset:
Link Prediction via Matrix Factorization
(2011)

We propose to solve the link prediction problem in graphs using a supervised matrix factorization approach. The model learns latent features from the topological structure of a (possibly directed) graph, and is shown to make better predictions than popular unsupervised scores. We show how these latent features may be combined with optional explicit features for nodes or edges, which yields better performance than using either type of feature exclusively. Finally, we propose a novel approach to address the class imbalance problem which is common in link prediction by directly optimizing for a ranking loss. Our model is optimized with stochastic gradient descent and scales to large graphs. Results on several datasets show the efficacy of our approach.
LHCP and RHCP Substrate Integrated Waveguide Antenna Arrays for Millimeter-Wave Applications
(2017)

Left-hand and right-hand circularly polarized (LHCP and RHCP) substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) antenna arrays are presented at the 28-GHz band for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) applications. Two types of circularly polarized (CP) antenna elements are designed to achieve respective LHCP and RHCP performance. Eight-element LHCP and RHCP antenna arrays have been implemented with feeding networks and measured. Based on the measurement, the LHCP and RHCP antenna arrays have impedance bandwidths of 1.54 and 1.7 GHz within $| S_{\rm{11}}| < - \text{10 dB}$, whereas 3-dB axial-ratio bandwidths are 1.1 and 1.3 GHz, respectively. Each of the fabricated LHCP and RHCP antenna arrays is accomplished with a gain up to 13.09 and 13.52 dBi. Most of the measured results are validated with the simulated ones. The proposed CP antenna arrays can provide low-cost, broadband characteristics, and high-gain radiation performance with CP properties for mm-wave applications.
A Review of Substrate Integrated Waveguide End-Fire Antennas
(2018)

Substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) is a planar waveguide structure, which offers the advantages of low profile, ease of fabrication, low insertion loss, and compatibility with other planar circuits. SIW end-fire antennas have drawn broad interests due to the potential applications in aircraft, missile, and radar systems. However, this planar structure suffers from narrow bandwidth due to severe impedance mismatch at the radiating aperture. Meanwhile, the narrow radiating aperture of SIW end-fire antennas also deteriorates the radiation performance. This paper presents a detailed review upon the most recent research efforts concerning the improvement of antenna performances. They are discussed and classified into three different categories from the aspect of polarization properties: horizontally polarized, vertically polarized, and circularly polarized SIW end-fire antennas. Some practical difficulties for the development of SIW end-fire antennas are pointed out and effective approaches are also provided. A wide variety of antenna examples are presented with respect to theoretical and experimental results.
Feature Mining for Localised Crowd Counting
(2012)

This paper presents a multi-output regression model for crowd counting in public scenes. Existing counting by regression methods either learn a single model for global counting, or train a large number of separate regressors for localised density estimation. In contrast, our single regression model based approach is able to estimate people count in spatially localised regions and is more scalable without the need for training a large number of regressors proportional to the number of local regions. In particular, the proposed model automatically learns the functional mapping between interdependent low-level features and multi-dimensional structured outputs. The model is able to discover the inherent importance of different features for people counting at different spatial locations. Extensive evaluations on an existing crowd analysis benchmark dataset and a new more challenging dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
Trajectory Bundling for Animated Transitions
(2015)

Animated transition has been a popular design choice for smoothly switching between different visualization views or layouts, in which movement trajectories are created as cues for tracking objects during location shifting. Tracking moving objects, however, becomes difficult when their movement paths overlap or the number of tracking targets increases. We propose a novel design to facilitate tracking moving objects in animated transitions. Instead of simply animating an object along a straight line, we create "bundled" movement trajectories for a group of objects that have spatial proximity and share similar moving directions. To study the effect of bundled trajectories, we untangle variations due to different aspects of tracking complexity in a comprehensive controlled user study. The results indicate that using bundled trajectories is particularly effective when tracking more targets (six vs. three targets) or when the object movement involves a high degree of occlusion or deformation. Based on the study, we discuss the advantages and limitations of the new technique, as well as provide design implications.
A Taxonomy of Domain-Specific Aspect Languages
(2015)

Domain-Specific Aspect Languages (DSALs) are Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) designed to express crosscutting concerns. Compared to DSLs, their aspectual nature greatly amplifies the language design space. We structure this space in order to shed light on and compare the different domain-specific approaches to deal with crosscutting concerns. We report on a corpus of 36 DSALs covering the space, discuss a set of design considerations, and provide a taxonomy of DSAL implementation approaches. This work serves as a frame of reference to DSAL and DSL researchers, enabling further advances in the field, and to developers as a guide for DSAL implementations.
Convolutional face finder: a neural architecture for fast and robust face detection
(2004)

In this paper, we present a novel face detection approach based on a convolutional neural architecture, designed to robustly detect highly variable face patterns, rotated up to /spl plusmn/20 degrees in image plane and turned up to /spl plusmn/60 degrees, in complex real world images. The proposed system automatically synthesizes simple problem-specific feature extractors from a training set of face and nonface patterns, without making any assumptions or using any hand-made design concerning the features to extract or the areas of the face pattern to analyze. The face detection procedure acts like a pipeline of simple convolution and subsampling modules that treat the raw input image as a whole. We therefore show that an efficient face detection system does not require any costly local preprocessing before classification of image areas. The proposed scheme provides very high detection rate with a particularly low level of false positives, demonstrated on difficult test sets, without requiring the use of multiple networks for handling difficult cases. We present extensive experimental results illustrating the efficiency of the proposed approach on difficult test sets and including an in-depth sensitivity analysis with respect to the degrees of variability of the face patterns.
Markov Logic Mixtures of Gaussian Processes: Towards Machines Reading Regression Data
(2012)

We propose a novel mixtures of Gaussian processes model in which the gating function is interconnected with a probabilistic logical model, in our case Markov logic networks. In this way, the resulting mixed graphical model, called Markov logic mixtures of Gaussian processes (MLxGP), solves joint Bayesian non-parametric regression and probabilistic relational inference tasks. In turn, MLxGP facilitates novel, interesting tasks such as regression based on logical constraints or drawing probabilistic logical conclusions about regression data, thus putting “machines reading regression data” in reach.
On the Spectral Bias of Neural Networks
(2018)

Neural networks are known to be a class of highly expressive functions able to fit even random input-output mappings with 100% accuracy. In this work we present properties of neural networks that complement this aspect of expressivity. By using tools from Fourier analysis, we show that deep ReLU networks are biased towards low frequency functions, meaning that they cannot have local fluctuations without affecting their global behavior. Intuitively, this property is in line with the observation that over-parameterized networks find simple patterns that generalize across data samples. We also investigate how the shape of the data manifold affects expressivity by showing evidence that learning high frequencies gets easier with increasing manifold complexity, and present a theoretical understanding of this behavior. Finally, we study the robustness of the frequency components with respect to parameter perturbation, to develop the intuition that the parameters must be finely tuned to express high frequency functions.
Structured light in scattering media
(2005)

Virtually all structured light methods assume that the scene and the sources are immersed in pure air and that light is neither scattered nor absorbed. Recently, however, structured lighting has found growing application in underwater and aerial imaging, where scattering effects cannot be ignored. In this paper, we present a comprehensive analysis of two representative methods - light stripe range scanning and photometric stereo - in the presence of scattering. For both methods, we derive physical models for the appearances of a surface immersed in a scattering medium. Based on these models, we present results on (a) the condition for object detectability in light striping and (b) the number of sources required for photometric stereo. In both cases, we demonstrate that while traditional methods fail when scattering is significant, our methods accurately recover the scene (depths, normals, albedos) as well as the properties of the medium. These results are in turn used to restore the appearances of scenes as if they were captured in clear air. Although we have focused on light striping and photometric stereo, our approach can also be extended to other methods such as grid coding, gated and active polarization imaging.
Conceptualizing Sources in Online News
(2001)

This study attempts a new conceptualization of communication “sources” by proposing a typology of sources that would apply not only to traditional media but also to new online media. Ontological rationale for the distinctions in the typology is supplemented by psychological evidence via an experiment that investigated the effects of different types of source attributions upon receivers’ perception of online news content. Participants (N = 48) in a 4-condition, between-participants experiment read 6 identical news stories each through an online service. Participants were told that the stories were selected by 1 of 4 sources: news editors, the computer terminal on which they were accessing the stories, other audience members (or users) of the online news service, or (using a pseudo-selection task) the individual user (self). After reading each online news story, all participants filled out a paperand-pencil questionnaire indicating their perceptions of the story they had just read. In confirmation of the distinctions made in the typology, attribution of identical content to 4 different types of online sources was associated with significant variation in news story perception. Theoretical implications of the results as well as the typology are discussed.
Conceptualising user hedonic experience
(2004)

For many years, the approach taken towards technology design focused on supporting the effective, efficient, and satisfying use of it. The way people use technology has shifted from merely using it to enjoying using it. This paper describes an early approach to understanding user experience in context of technologies (e.g. digital cameras, PDAs, and mobile phones), as well as in more general context such as physical activities e.g. exercising, orienteering, and walking, and in context of diaries. The focus of this paper is on hedonic user experience; that is pleasure, enjoyment, excitement, and fun in the context of technology. This study provides insights into factors contributing to and influencing such experiences and the relationships between them.
Factorized Geometrical Autofocus for Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing
(2014)

This paper describes a factorized geometrical autofocus (FGA) algorithm, specifically suitable for ultrawideband synthetic aperture radar. The strategy is integrated in a fast factorized back-projection chain and relies on varying track parameters step by step to obtain a sharp image; focus measures are provided by an object function (intensity correlation). The FGA algorithm has been successfully applied on synthetic and real (Coherent All RAdio BAnd System II) data sets, i.e., with false track parameters introduced prior to processing, to set up constrained problems involving one geometrical quantity. Resolution (3 dB in azimuth and slant range) and peak-to-sidelobe ratio measurements in FGA images are comparable with reference results (within a few percent and tenths of a decibel), demonstrating the capacity to compensate for residual space variant range cell migration. The FGA algorithm is finally also benchmarked (visually) against the phase gradient algorithm to emphasize the advantage of a geometrical autofocus approach.
It's More than Just Sharing Game Play Videos! Understanding User Motives in Mobile Game Social Media
(2017)

As mobile gaming has become increasingly popular in recent years, new forms of mobile game social media such as GameDuck that share mobile gameplay videos have emerged. In this work, we set out to understand the user motives of GameDuck by leveraging the Uses and Gratification Theory. We first explore the major motive themes from users' responses (n=138) and generate motivation survey items. We then identify the key motivators by conducting exploratory factor analysis of the survey results (n=354). Finally, we discuss how this new social media relates to existing systems such as Twitch.
Enterprise Architecture design for ensuring strategic business IT alignment (integrating SAMM with TOGAF 9.1)
(2013)

Strategic business IT (Information Technology) alignment is one of the main objectives that is achieved from the implementation of Enterprise Architecture (EA) in an organization. EA helps organizations to define architecture of business, information systems and technology that capable for aligning business strategy with IT organizations, through the development of business models, business strategy, business processes and organizations that aligned with infrastructure, applications and IT organizations. A good design of Enterprise Architecture should consider various viewpoints of IT alignment with the organization's business needs. This paper provides a solution how to design Enterprise Architecture which provides guarantee for strategic business IT alignment that is designed through the integration of SAMM component with TOGAF 9.1 metamodel.
Machine learning - a probabilistic perspective
(2012)

“Kevin Murphy excels at unraveling the complexities of machine learning methods while motivating the reader with a stream of illustrated examples and real-world case studies. The accompanying software package includes source code for many of the figures, making it both easy and very tempting to dive in and explore these methods for yourself. A must-buy for anyone interested in machine learning or curious about how to extract useful knowledge from big data.” John Winn, Microsoft Research
Algorithms for the variable sized bin packing problem
(2003)

In this paper, we consider the variable sized bin packing problem where the objective is to minimize the total cost of used bins when the cost of unit size of each bin does not increase as the bin size increases. Two greedy algorithms are described, and analyzed in three special cases: (a) the sizes of items and bins are divisible, respectively, (b) only the sizes of bins are divisible, and (c) the sizes of bins are not divisible. Here, we say that a list of numbers a1; a2; . . . ; am are divisible when aj exactly divides aj 1, for each 1 < j6m. In the case of (a), the algorithms give optimal solutions, and in the case of (b), each algorithm gives a solution whose value is less than 11 9 CðB Þ þ 4 9 , where CðB Þ is the optimal value. In the case of (c), each algorithm gives a solution whose value is less than 3 2 CðB Þ þ 1. 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
IoT system for Human Activity Recognition using BioHarness 3 and Smartphone
(2017)

This paper presents an Internet of Things (IoT) approach to Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using remote monitoring of vital signs in the context of a healthcare system for self-managed chronic heart patients. Our goal is to create a HAR-IoT system using learning algorithms to infer the activity done within 4 categories (lie, sit, walk and run) as well as the time consumed performing these activities and, finally giving feedback during and after the activity. Alike in this work, we provide a comprehensive insight on the cloud-based system implemented and the conclusions after implementing two different learning algorithms and the results of the overall system for larger implementations.
Analysis and Design of an Input-Series Two-Transistor Forward Converter For High-Input Voltage Multiple-Output Applications
(2018)

In this paper, an input-series two-transistor forward converter is proposed and investigated, which is aimed at high-input voltage multiple-output applications. In this converter, all of the switches are operating synchronously, and the input voltage sharing (IVS) of each series-module is achieved automatically by the coupling of primary windings of the common forward integrated transformer. The active IVS processes are analyzed based on the model of the forward integrated transformer. Through the influence analysis when the mismatches in various series-modules are considered, design principles of the key parameters in each series-module are discussed to suppress the input voltage difference. Finally, a 96-W laboratory-made prototype composed of two forward series-modules is built, and the feasibility of the proposed method and the theoretical analysis are verified by the experimental results.
Task-Driven Feature Pooling for Image Classification
(2015)

Feature pooling is an important strategy to achieve high performance in image classification. However, most pooling methods are unsupervised and heuristic. In this paper, we propose a novel task-driven pooling (TDP) model to directly learn the pooled representation from data in a discriminative manner. Different from the traditional methods (e.g., average and max pooling), TDP is an implicit pooling method which elegantly integrates the learning of representations into the given classification task. The optimization of TDP can equalize the similarities between the descriptors and the learned representation, and maximize the classification accuracy. TDP can be combined with the traditional BoW models (coding vectors) or the recent state-of-the-art CNN models (feature maps) to achieve a much better pooled representation. Furthermore, a self-training mechanism is used to generate the TDP representation for a new test image. A multi-task extension of TDP is also proposed to further improve the performance. Experiments on three databases (Flower-17, Indoor-67 and Caltech-101) well validate the effectiveness of our models.
Channel Attention and Multi-level Features Fusion for Single Image Super-Resolution
(2018)

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have demonstrated superior performance in super-resolution (SR). However, most CNN-based SR methods neglect the different importance among feature channels or fail to take full advantage of the hierarchical features. To address these issues, this paper presents a novel recursive unit. Firstly, at the beginning of each unit, we adopt a compact channel attention mechanism to adaptively recalibrate the channel importance of input features. Then, the multi-level features, rather than only deep-level features, are extracted and fused. Additionally, we find that it will force our model to learn more details by using the learnable upsampling method (i.e., transposed convolution) only on residual branch (instead of using it both on residual branch and identity branch) while using the bicubic interpolation on the other branch. Analytic experiments show that our method achieves competitive results compared with the state-of-the-art methods and maintains faster speed as well.
Kolmogorov's theorem and multilayer neural networks
(1992)

-Taking advantage of techniques developed by Kolmogorov, we give a direct proof of the universal approximation capabilities of perceptron type networks with two hidden layers. From our proof we derive estimates of numbers of hidden units based on properties of the function being approximated and the accuracy of its approximation. Keywords--Feedforward neural networks, Multilayer perceptron type networks, Sigmoidal activation function, Approximations of continuous functions, Uniform approximation, Universal approximation capabilities, Estimates of number of hidden units, Modulus of continuity.
Dynamic Bin Packing for On-Demand Cloud Resource Allocation
(2016)

Dynamic Bin Packing (DBP) is a variant of classical bin packing, which assumes that items may arrive and depart at arbitrary times. Existing works on DBP generally aim to minimize the maximum number of bins ever used in the packing. In this paper, we consider a new version of the DBP problem, namely, the MinTotal DBP problem which targets at minimizing the total cost of the bins used overtime. It is motivated by the request dispatching problem arising from cloud gaming systems. We analyze the competitive ratios of the modified versions of the commonly used First Fit, Best Fit, and Any Fit packing (the family of packing algorithms that open a new bin only when no currently open bin can accommodate the item to be packed) algorithms for the MinTotal DBP problem. We show that the competitive ratio of Any Fit packing cannot be better than μ + 1, where μ is the ratio of the maximum item duration to the minimum item duration. The competitive ratio of Best Fit packing is not bounded for any given μ. For First Fit packing, if all the item sizes are smaller than 1/β of the bin capacity (β> 1 is a constant), the competitive ratio has an upper bound of β/β-1·μ+3β/β-1 + 1. For the general case, the competitive ratio of First Fit packing has an upper bound of 2μ + 7. We also propose a Hybrid First Fit packing algorithm that can achieve a competitive ratio no larger than 5/4 μ + 19/4 when μ is not known and can achieve a competitive ratio no larger than μ + 5 when μ is known.
Adaptation of Word Vectors using Tree Structure for Visual Semantics
(2016)

We propose a framework of word-vector adaptation, which makes vectors of visually similar concepts close to each other. Here, word vectors are real-valued vector representation of words, e.g., word2vec representation. Our basic idea is to assume that each concept has some hypernyms that are important to determine its visual features. For example, for a concept Swallow with hypernyms Bird, Animal and Entity, we believe Bird is the most important since birds have common visual features with their feathers etc. Adapted word vectors are obtained for each word by taking a weighted sum of a given original word vector and its hypernym word vectors. Our weight optimization makes vectors of visually similar concepts close to each other, by giving a large weight for such important hypernyms. We apply the adapted word vectors to zero-shot learning on the TRECVID 2014 semantic indexing dataset. We achieved 0.083 of Mean Average Precision, which is the best performance without using TRECVID training data to the best of our knowledge.